I found you guys about 6 months ago and now cant go to bed without listening to a new or former episode. They are all fantastic. Thank you.
@restishistorypod2 ай бұрын
No, thank you !
@joannamoore44772 ай бұрын
@@restishistorypod- I discovered you guys after you had been going 6 months . Binged everything on a car journey. It’s the only thing I listen to now . And I just go back to “ greatness “ at the start of the series . I must be on my 8th or 10th go through all the podcasts . My husband bought me an online documentary subscription which is very good . But I only want to listen to dom and Tom’s voices non stop 😂. I miss their voices when I am not listening to them , I might have a problem 😆
@thegoldenbandicoot2 ай бұрын
My wife has listened in some nights. Her favourite remains History's Greatest Dogs. You both had us in stitches. Best wishes from Brisbane, Australia.@@restishistorypod
@UTubeSL2 ай бұрын
@@restishistorypod you have made me interested in history in a way that I have never previously been. Thank you so much!
@danielalveorodriguez7177Ай бұрын
Same here.
@AxeManJapan2 ай бұрын
Best history podcast! Recommend you to everyone.
@restishistorypod2 ай бұрын
Thank you !
@anupammajmudar6752Ай бұрын
Yes, thank you.
@patrickorr8132 ай бұрын
What an exciting lesson in history, Dominic and Tom are a true treasure with a well balanced version of the revolution.
@restishistorypod2 ай бұрын
Thank you !
@endlessnameless6628Ай бұрын
I absolutely love Dominic and Tom and this is a fantastic primer for the main events but if anyone is looking for an insanely deep dive into the French Revolution then I cant recommend Mike Duncans 'Revolutions' podcast series enough. Its practically a day by day account of the French revolution with the backstory of virtually every political player and event along with the contextual backdrop of the economic, political, legislative and cultural forces that led up to it. Its around 28(!) hours long and the level of detail is unrivaled but its incredibly worth it.
@danielalveorodriguez7177Ай бұрын
Best podcast/ series I have seen in long while. Chapeau mes amis.
@thebuff41202 ай бұрын
Very well narrated gentlemen! I'm learning more and more as a result.
@restishistorypod2 ай бұрын
Thank you !
@alansharp30182 ай бұрын
I've been listening to TRIH since the beginning .....It's superb ... I've learned more from you guys than i ever did at school ....Cheers 👍
@leannatimmerman9922Ай бұрын
What a story! Thank you so very much for teaching us this history. So many lessons about the nature of humanity and politics to be absorbed here.
@skdjirrrdjdm3926Ай бұрын
The French Revolution has always been one of the most fascinating events to me because of the chaos and mass hysterical violence where mobody was really safe. But I've learned so much more about it than ever thanks to this series. I love the layers of perspective you look at events through, as well with plenty of anecdotes about the major players. You really bring history to life❤
@FighterofthenightmanaaaahАй бұрын
I always love how Dominic and Tom make tongue in cheek jabs about centrist dads and the Rest Is Politics
@gbickellАй бұрын
I await these episode with great excitement! By far the best history channel on KZbin. A big thank you to all the folks behind this and, of course, our two young gallants presenting.
@jaynemacklyne14622 ай бұрын
Ere have been many episodes but you don't become any less engaging for that, if fact the characters deepen and the plot twists build! I'm so excited by your narration I keep looking for your next installment. So very well done, a big thankyou!
@TheChuck1812 ай бұрын
So excited you guys are continuing the FR story. I commented on a video in the first series saying I wish you guys would keep going right through the Napoleonic era, I like to think you saw that and thought what a good idea! 😊
@davidhollins8702 ай бұрын
There are quite a few Napoleonic podcasts and YT channels now: Age of Napoleon (Everett Rummage), Napoleonic Quarterly (Alex Stevenson), Napoleonic Wars Podcast (Zack White), Generals and Napoleon (Personality focused - John Viscardo) and on YT, Russian Eagles (covering Suvarov).
@catherinelennon4804Ай бұрын
Loving this. Can't wait for the next one. Well done Tom and Dominic.
@danielalveorodriguez7177Ай бұрын
Why don’t we call the Estates Generales about this situation?
@rishthefish7781Ай бұрын
Yessss hunny I twerk when I be listening to this podcast boo
@periana7205Ай бұрын
@rishthefish yes baby! I lick my tongue out and shake my booty to this podcast child 👅 💅
@timmycossens5902Ай бұрын
Amazing lads! I live in Australia and have a hour commute everyday. Have listened to hours and hours of you guys. Love the storytelling 🤝
@restishistorypodАй бұрын
Thank you !
@pukika882 ай бұрын
Since this podcast started i am looking for an excuse to do household chores so i can listen to it. Really great work!
@restishistorypod2 ай бұрын
Thank you !
@ishaanhall782 ай бұрын
An episode of this podcast fits perfectly with an extended dog walk :)
@rush194tifyАй бұрын
Your podcast is so fascinating and eloquent. It is a pleasure to listen to you guys. Thanks for your work.
@restishistorypodАй бұрын
Thank you !
@edwardloomis887Ай бұрын
Lafayette's name is all over the U.S. Counties, towns, streets carry his name, and when he toured the U.S. in 1824-25, he got a hero's welcome. The city outside the homebase of the 82nd Airborne Division is Fayetteville.
@sarahmartin71812 ай бұрын
Every day I wake up looking for a new episode. Every. Damn. Day. And today it's like Christmas has come!
@262marcus2 ай бұрын
Brilliant subject. Love this podcast. The one earlier on in the year on Custers last stand was also tremendous. So well researched and delivered with such panache.
@AndriaBieberDesigns2 ай бұрын
Love you guys and this channel! ❤
@reaganwiles_art2 ай бұрын
Very entertaining guys. Love listening to you guys while I'm painting pictures. Dominic was talking about his love for, I don't even know what the movie is called, with Depardieu as Danton. I would recommend, highly recommend, The Marseillaise directed by Jean Renoir.
@gwcstudio22 күн бұрын
"Danton"
@benjaminshort3181Ай бұрын
Really appreciate your work guys!
@sleeming882 ай бұрын
It's truly shocking just how profoundly dense Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were still being at this critical stage of events. How could they possibly think they could openly defy the popular mood and conspire with the Austrians so blatantly and not be found out?
@knightmarepilot48324 күн бұрын
As children of nobility, they thought too highly of themselves and that was fatal in such a historical moment.
@vilagivideos30202 ай бұрын
Let’s not lose our heads.😂😂😂
@KarlRoloff6919 күн бұрын
Crushed the series is over. Loved every minute! Now I'll have to check out the other material.
@chimbongo8187Ай бұрын
loving this series, this made go out and buy Citizens, absolutely fascinating
@andrewcraig-bennett365926 күн бұрын
Wonderful book !
@nigelmcconnell19092 ай бұрын
I'm listening to this while milking my cows on my small family farm in the western district of Victoria (Australia) thinking "if we had colonised by the French we would have had not one, not two, but FIVE republics!". Would have fought at Verdun not the Somme, heavily involved in the Vietnam war, lots of nuclear testing, and who knows what the reaction to the fall of France in 1940 would have been... A civil war? But we might be allowed to our wine Neu Champaign
@bazzatheblueАй бұрын
You wouldn't be much cop at cricket though.
@nigelmcconnell1909Ай бұрын
@@bazzatheblue still might hold our own in the school yard and the beach playing french cricket 🙂. And either way swear a lot of ungentlemanly oaths on the tennis court.
@willdobson73512 ай бұрын
This is so good. It would be an interesting dramatic idea to explore those two hours of confrontation between the people and the royal family.
@sarahmartin7181Ай бұрын
I know that you guys liked my comment earlier about it being Christmas, but I couldn't wait for another few days... and I am now proudly paying for your podcast. I have never been so interested in any podcast as I am yours. Now if I could meet you guys... Lol
@CalledTurnAGundam2 ай бұрын
Say what you want about the French; they know how to party.
@74wrighty27 күн бұрын
Good stuff.Love it.
@philipeagleton750Ай бұрын
Superb series! Merci mes amis
@fastpublishАй бұрын
The Leaves Are Falling Early This Year - how very Eric Cantona!
@affonso625Ай бұрын
I love your channel, guys! Superb! I’m eager to hear about the Princess of Lamballe, but I can’t find the video. Is it released already?
@nelsonchereta81627 күн бұрын
Lafayette "I've come to put an end to this nonsense and restore order!" Assembly "You and what army?" Lafayette "D'Oh!" I'm sure a young Napoleon was watching this and taking notes about how not to seize power,
@stevesmith8155Ай бұрын
Amazing stories from our recent past. Great to listen to as an American just prior to a defining national vote. I wonder if we would really learn anything if we were to live 1,000 years.
@stevefox7961Ай бұрын
Loving this series brilliant
@restishistorypodАй бұрын
Thank you !
@HayaJiАй бұрын
100k subs! Well done team!!
@hisdadjames4876Ай бұрын
Love the anecdote about China’s long term planning. Asked at a recent Paris function whether China thought the French Revolution was a good or a bad thing for France and the wider world, the Chinese Ambassador replied…..‘It’s really far too early to say’. 😂
@martin92177Ай бұрын
It was I think the Chinese prime minister, Mao’s deputy, Lin Piaou, talking to Kissinger and referring to the disruptions of 1968, not 1789
@andrewcraig-bennett365926 күн бұрын
@@martin92177 Almost right: it was Zhou EnLai, Mao’s Premier and Foreign Secretary but you are right - he was referring to « les événements de 1968 ».
@stevendaleschmitt2 ай бұрын
Many parallels with modern society today. Rather than just a historic episode, maybe it serves as the model for revolutions that came after. Maybe 'rhyming' history isn't accidental.
@theresachung7032 ай бұрын
I learn how to teach students from you guys: engaging and dense
@Paralititan2 ай бұрын
There is a beautiful monument in Luzern (Lucerne) to the fallen swiss guard called the Lion Monument. It was hewn into a mountain in the 1820s. At the time it was not without controversy due to it potentially symbolizing the power of "the ancien regime", but ofc also national pride and family relations of relatives of the deceased swiss were an influence. Can recommend to go visit if you are in the area.
@ambitionbirdАй бұрын
I had to give this one a like for "He's a Champagne socialist"
@vilagivideos30202 ай бұрын
This is sooo exciting!!!!
@JohnLandau-h5gАй бұрын
Edmund Burke's extremely critical view of the French Revolution and his fears that it might spread to England (which it almost did)
@marieparker3822Ай бұрын
I read a really interesting book by the American historian, R Palmer, about the Committee for Public Safety, called 'Twelve Who Ruled' - recommended.
@michaelbedford80172 ай бұрын
'Nothing Tolouse' What a guy!
@marieparker3822Ай бұрын
Louis sounds as if he is as much in touch with what people think as Keir Starmer.
@katielokerАй бұрын
When will the next French Revolution episode be released?
@krishinc8 күн бұрын
Where is S02E06? I cannot find the next episode
@AnneGreen-cg5ug12 күн бұрын
I've tried several times to join - but I can't seem to be accepted either with debit card, credit card or pay pal, all of which I use successfully with loads of purchases, anyone got any ideas?
@johncarroll7722 ай бұрын
How can yous guys make umpteen French Revolution podcasts without mentioning The Black Fingernail 🤔
@freelandguy121Ай бұрын
Didn't expect Hartlepool to get a mention lmao
@susanroutt6690Ай бұрын
Watching this from Fayette County, Kentucky. Named for Lafayette
@anguspaterson5713Ай бұрын
Why does this episode have a different opening quote to the Spotify version! I want to see Tom’s impression of Jeremy Corbyn!
@gwcstudio22 күн бұрын
There's a movie about the flight to Varennes; saw it as a kid - it's great stuff.
@engerland4532Ай бұрын
Rest is History presented by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
@MaShcode2 ай бұрын
Danton’s memorial on Rue St. Germain forever pointing diners to Odéon.
@invisibleray69875 күн бұрын
Classic Clouseu 😂
@theshrubbererАй бұрын
tell us more about the festering canon 😂
@bewilderedbrit8928Ай бұрын
Great series.
@Happyheretic2308Ай бұрын
Corrupt? Danton is the Starmer of the Revolution.
@BenTrem4220 күн бұрын
An entirely different context and situation, of course, but 8:20 ... with over 100K in the streets, any number of factions ... militarized security ... from Thursday evening to Sunday night I probably had 2 sessions of sleep. 5 hours? Like hysteria, sleep deprivation does notRPTnot increase skill at decision making.
@AyewonderfullifeАй бұрын
Well at least Lafayette manage to keep his head attached and survive the insanity of the revolution.
@JerusnamWien85Ай бұрын
Though empty-headed, as Dominic likes to point out, he was a brilliant survivalist and opportunist.
@AyewonderfullifeАй бұрын
I was reading up on Lafayette. He was key to Washington’s successes and repeatedly kept the British forces busy. At the final battle of the American Revolution at Yorktown he kept Cornwallis pinned down until Washington arrived with his forces. He also was key in securing help for Washington from Louis XVI, which may explain why he wished to find a different resolution for Louis XVI and his family. 🤔
@lizparker2777Ай бұрын
Why so many ads! Seriously! It just spoils the momentum
@johnnydavis58962 ай бұрын
I guess there is no way the French can hold off the Prussians😁 at Verdun!
@thanksfernuthin2 ай бұрын
That's alright, Tom. Here in America we think of Lafayette as a great hero as well. And there's more of us. We win! 😉
@stevo728822Ай бұрын
Colonial tax dodgers!!
@thierrysanchez3161Ай бұрын
Il y a des partis et puis pas de parti ... On comprends plus rien ...C'est anglosaxon? La chronologie est bizzare
@FiveLiverАй бұрын
Pictures!
@StephanieHughesDesign2 ай бұрын
Plus française histoire, s'il vous plaît ! Merci.
@maria-ceciliapeon5776Ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@ekketomozin281028 күн бұрын
Let us not cross the Rubicon. 'Tis a silly place.
@hybridhermit007Ай бұрын
Love the content, but the number of ads makes it unwatchable. Shame
@drprofessorsoso208Ай бұрын
I must admit, the resonance of the French people's proposition is most mellifluous to the intellect; should you steadfastly resist the caprices of vacillation, you may indeed secure the preeminence of your station. Ah, if only the collective consciousness of the global populace possessed such perspicacity-to ascend beyond the myopic clutches of parochial paradigms, eschewing their regressive proclivities for thought more expansive. Such a shift in paradigm would undoubtedly usher in a new epoch of enlightened discernment. Ah, were I endowed with the sovereign capacity to disseminate such enlightened wisdom amongst the masses, I would exercise it with unrelenting vigor, instilling a cognizance that elevates them beyond the fetters of myopia and towards a horizon of intellectual expansiveness. Indeed, those who tenaciously cling to the obsolescence of bygone paradigms, despite the dawning of a more evolved epistemic order, may find themselves ensnared within the very suffering they once propagated. In steadfast adherence to the antiquated, they will be left to languish, enduring the reverberations of their own limitations, while the world advances inexorably into a refined paradigm unburdened by their recalcitrant inertia.
@drprofessorsoso208Ай бұрын
@@liam1561 "Thank you for your observation! The choice of words was intentional, reflecting my appreciation for the nuances and elegance that language can convey. French, with its melodic quality, often embodies ideas of sophistication and intellectual depth. My intent was to evoke a sense of elevated discourse, encouraging a shift towards broader perspectives and enlightened understanding. Language is a powerful tool, and sometimes the richness of certain terms can encapsulate concepts in ways that simpler words cannot. I welcome further discussion on this topic and how language shapes our perceptions."
@gary8117Ай бұрын
These two are the best... very interesting discussions always and on any historical topics. Tom is always so funny with his little comments. I fondly remember during the discussion about Hitler's rise to power when Dominic is talking about a meeting that the early Nazis were at and that most of them were eating German sausages.... Tom jumps in saying ;" and Hitler is there munching on spinach" _ so hilarious ! because of course as it is well known that Hitler was a vegetarian 😂
@scottstevens9533Ай бұрын
The plural of “cannon” is “cannon.”
@MatthewFelgate-r4u8 күн бұрын
The french troops sound like they were behaving quite rationally in declining to charge the 50,000 Austrians.
@Happyheretic2308Ай бұрын
No one in their right mind thinks Mandelson is a good man.
@tropics84072 ай бұрын
How horrible these Jacobin all are 😡 brilliant work guys 👏👏
@Archibald_von_MunchАй бұрын
I’m thinking everyone was horrible - and the King and Queen were traitors and idiots.
@stevo728822Ай бұрын
Danton == the original Champagne Socialist 🍸
@matthewvoyles7031Ай бұрын
What happened to the hairdresser?
@j0nnyismАй бұрын
La Fayette is a very French conception of the heroic general
@mito88Ай бұрын
berserk
@iga279Ай бұрын
BeRserk
@patricktracey7424Ай бұрын
whether you like the French or not they did get rid of there unelected monarchy perhaps the UK should take lessons from them.
@VonLАй бұрын
To whom do I owe my allegiance and my fixed income, your patreon account or the liquor store. Crisis.
@marciamusser31792 ай бұрын
The French are pretty bloddy non ?
@Ilfrinco11 күн бұрын
You're only a Champagne socialist if you're from the proper region. Otherwise its just sparkling white socialist.
@funkyfoodsterАй бұрын
'All bad ideas start in France'
@LooseThereminАй бұрын
Clearly Louis 16th was not the man for the job. There seems to have been something wrong with him from the start. Maybe he knew it and that was why he was depressed. I think you are being a bit harsh on him Dominic and on Marie Antoinette. Of course they were conspiring with the Austrians because they were being held hostage by the French rabble and their lives and their children's lives hung in the balance. After all they had the example of what the rabble did to the upskirters ! Summary execution for a misdemeanour ! No wonder Louis and Marie were desperate. They had every reason to be. After all you can't negotiate with a mob.
@richardsmith579Ай бұрын
Okay. The French revolution was horrible and the French royal family were essentially decent people. Ditto the Russian revolution, only the Russian imperial family was pretty awful, children excepted. I understand how these two are trying to explain the sequencing, and their detailed choreography is brilliant. However, nothing they explain can forgive the true awfulness of it all. Marie Antoinette was hated even before she arrived in France as a political pawn, so I can forgive her practically anything. Poor woman.
@robertalpy2 ай бұрын
This is why Washington, Hamilton and rhe Federalists are so great and Jefferson so small. The foemwe two are not only brave but they have awnae and mistrust the french. Jefferson was a coward and thought french brutality was just great.
@jack88liyuanАй бұрын
Custer deserves 13 episodes , 1792/93 france deserves one. Yep American coin is all that matters
@robertlangley1664Ай бұрын
Fighting and the french don’t really go together this has gone all round the world